Henry Irving

Biographic Data

ID3766253
NAMEHenry Irving
GIVEN NAMESHenry
FAMILY NAMEIrving
SIGNATUREIRVING H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of London
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • Renegotiating Citizenship through the Lens of the ‘People’s War’ in Second World War Britain

    Open AccessJessica Hammett, Henry Irving et al.ARTICLEThe English Historical Review2023

    This article re-examines the importance of the ‘people’s war’ by exploring the word history of the phrase. The article shows that the term was widely used and understood on the British home front during the Second World War. Our focus is on how it provided a framework to renegotiate citizenship. Drawing on a wide range of popular newspapers, magazines and life writing, we argue that the ‘people’s war’ was a flexible concept. It was used, on the o…

  • Paper salvage in Britain during the Second World War

    Open AccessHenry Irving, H M N H IrvingARTICLEHistorical Research2016Cited by: 1References: 3

    This article builds upon recent scholarship on the recycling – or ‘salvage’ – schemes organized by the British government during the Second World War. Viewing the act of recycling as part of an interactive ‘communications circuit’, it uses records produced by the Ministry of Information to analyse the development of publicity produced for the national salvage campaign. Particular attention is paid to the public's role in shaping the course of the…

  • The Birth of a Politician

    Henry IrvingARTICLETwentieth Century British History2013Cited by: 1References: 1

    This article uses a detailed examination on the 1948 and 1949 Bonfires of Controls to reassess Harold Wilson's development as a politician and examine the broader relationship between popular politics and economic policy. Whilst acknowledging the continued importance of the latter within Wilson's self-identification as a modernizing 'specialist', it contends that these events are best viewed as representing the birth of a professional politician.…

  • Henry Irving Shakespeare

    Henry Irving, Frank A Marshall et al.BOOKHenry Irving Shakespeare2010

  • Henry Irving Shakespeare

    Henry Irving, Frank A Marshall et al.BOOKHenry Irving Shakespeare2010

  • Henry Irving Shakespeare

    Henry Irving, Frank A Marshall et al.BOOKHenry Irving Shakespeare2010

  • The Henry Irving Shakespeare

    Open AccessWilliam Shakespeare, Henry Irving et al.BOOKThe Henry Irving Shakespeare2009

    Henry Irving, the influential and controversial Victorian actor, was closely involved in the publication of this distinctive Shakespeare edition. As an actor, his concern was largely with the intellectual project of seeing each play as a unified work, rather than with producing strong emotional effects in the audience. In the words of his obituary in The Times, he appealed to scholars 'by his reverent and often acute treatment of the text', and a…